Hear ye, Hear ye, doctors and medicines
---She had said that she noticed water in a container with a hole in it stopped coming out at a certain point - and she had theorized that the 'hard water' was what was left, and the soft water leaked out.... I tried several other containers with a hole in the bottom and talked about water pressure with her- that we couldn't just scoop up 'hard water' or 'soft water' to put on top of the other water - it was the weight of any water - all the water was the same - but the more that was in there the more 'pressure' the water at the bottom had to leak out.. and when it got down, there wasn't enough pressure to force the water through the hole. She really understood that, and tried a few more times.
//There was also an outbreak of 'broccoli fever' among her imaginary patients - and a wordplay on 'patience' and patients getting their medicine if they have patience. *silly*
9a - break
10a - watching recycling batteries at plant- weighing scrap
10.30a - break
11:30a - Mickey Clubhouse pattern matching games
12p - Grizzwold the bear book, reading aloud
12.30p - break
----back to town for second trip, buying skates, getting dinner
3.30p - PE (skating)
4.30p - break
4.45p - Reading aloud, Grizzwold again
5p - pbskids.org, electric company word games
5.45p - done
We went to the local recycling plant today. Esme helped us load some of the smaller stuff, count and stack it - and we used equipment for several of the larger things. Once we were at the plant, she talked to several people about her homeschooling (which I was very proud of her for and she said she felt brave!) and watched them weigh the batteries on the scale. At one point the girl working there helped Esme take some of the batteries and stack them on the scale - so she could feel like she was helping in the process. The girl also showed her where on the computer the weights came up. I talked to Esme about how the scale was built - she couldn't see anything but the flat metal plate and asked me how it was a scale - what made it a scale? Then we talked about how the weights were figured with both addition and subtraction (there was a pallet on one of them), and then multiplication by the price per pound for the item. Out of the proceeds, she got a new pair of big kid rollerskates we had been looking at for her. We are also going to get several of our dogs spayed at the vet, which we have also talked about. So, this is a big learning day for how things are done and what are important things to do with the money.
She picked up the Grizzwold book by herself out of our latest library excursion, and read in between some of the trips. Then she picked it up and read it out loud again to both of us with some questions about the words she had missed the first time.
Here are pics of her happy with her new big kid skates! She has been wearing them most of the night *hehe*
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